Amerikan Prisons Are Government-Sponsored Torture

Torture is an official part of US foreign and domestic policy under its federal and state executive powers, and politically incorrect to allow it to be exposed to the public. However, brutality and torture are the common features of US prisons, from Guantanamo Bay, Corcoran state prison, Area 2, in which confessions on decades long torture resulted in 164 removals from death row and 4 full pardons. After WWII and related aversion towards physical torture (based on German "medical-scientific" experiments), the CIA, in cooperation with Harvard University, the National Institute of Mental Health, and psychiatrists, developed methods of mentally breaking and brainwash techniques: seemingly benign and harmless methods (sensory deprivation or sensory overload, both of them with stronger effects than drugs and physical torture, and "self-inflicted pain", so called "stress positions", physically and/or mentally painful positions) coupled with attacks on cultural sensitivities and personal phobias could produce mental disorder, collapse, capitulation, and psychosis. US prisoners are treated in ways developed for the use against "enemy combatants", whom the US government sees as having no political rights. In reality, they have no recourse against being mentally tortured, as the 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act bars prisoners from suing their abusers for mental torture. O. van Zijl